Human Factors in Health Care

The HFES 2017 International Annual Meeting will take place October 9–13 in Austin, Texas.

Health Care for an Aging Population, Wearable Technology Among Topics To Be Presented at HFES 2017.

More than 500 presentations at the HFES 2017 International Annual Meeting in Austin will cover a variety of topics representing the wide-reaching impact of HF/E research and practice in areas affecting human performance and safety at home, work, and leisure. Register at bit.ly/HFES2017_OnlineReg. Early-bird discounts are available until August 28.

Morning plenary sessions will showcase HF/E in three critical areas: Applying Human-Systems Integration to America’s Policing System, Safety in the Oil and Gas Industry, and Beyond Gamification: From Here to Affinity. View the preliminary technical program at bit.ly/HFES2017_PrelimProgram.

Paul Barclay (U. of Central Florida) won the 2017 student “Mobile Health Applications for Consumers” Design Competition. His submission was “”Videogame-Based Medication Adherence Reminder for Children Living with Chronic Illness and Their Caregivers”. The student design competition took place at the 2017 HFES Healthcare symposium and was co-sponsored by the Health Care Technical Group.

As we move forward with HCTG activities, we would like to learn more about our members. Specifically, we are hoping to better understand attendance at the Health Care Symposium and Annual Meeting and to understand with which other organizations our members are affiliated. When you need a short break from your busy schedules, please fill out this brief, 10 question survey.

Following the PDTG Business Meeting, the Product Design Technical Group and the Healthcare Technical Group will again be co-hosting a networking event at the HFES Annual Meeting. As a member of one or both of these groups, you are cordially invited to attend. Prospective members of either group are also welcome to attend so encourage your friends and colleagues who are seriously considering a TG membership to come with you. The purpose is to reconnect with old friends and to meet new ones. You can see last year’s attendees enjoying the event in the photos below. Evidence of the networking’s value comes from two outcomes told to me after the event. They are unrelated to each other.

“I returned from HFES 2011 with a new job opportunity, a direct result of networking at the Product Design & Health Care TG’s Networking Event!”

“The networking event was an opportunity to socialize with some old friends and colleagues and make a few new ones as well. I distinctly remember being impressed with meeting a PhD candidate who I subsequently reconnected with many months after the event. The result: she is now an employee of my company.”

At the 2012 HFES Annual Meeting, PDTG and HCTG will jointly host the 3rd annual networking event for members of those two technical groups. The first two events, in San Francisco and then Las Vegas, were held in a private area at a restaurant within walking distance of the conference hotel. In Las Vegas 138 attendees reconnected with old friends and met new ones while enjoying complimentary drinks and food. Even door prizes were given at the end of the event. This was all made possible by several generous companies and organizations who sponsored the event along with the two TGs. Thanks go to:

Case New Holland (CNH)

User Centric

UserWorks

National Center for Human Factors Engineering in Healthcare

Design Science

Usability Associates

Jay Pollack Consulting Human Factors Practice

Sponsors get exposure before during and after the event by way of emails, signage, newsletter articles, session announcements, and websites. For more details about sponsor benefits and how to make a tax-deductible donation, contact a member of the organizing committee.

Stan Caplan, scaplan [at] usabilityassociates [dot] com

Laurie Reiprich, laurie.reiprich [at] gmail [dot] com

Terry Fairbanks, terry.fairbanks [at] medicalhfe [dot] org

Anne Miller, anne.miller [at] Vanderbilt [dot] edu

Thanks also go to Margaux Price and Nicole Fink who took photos during the event, which was held on the outdoor patio of the Agave restaurant. A small sample of those photos can be seen below or you can click here to see all of the photos from the event.